Hermaphrodites in Renaissance Europe / Kathleen P. Long.

Author
Long, Kathleen P., 1957- [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Aldershot, Hampshire, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate Pub., 2006.
Description
x, 268 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

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    Series
    Women and gender in the early modern world [More in this series]
    Summary note
    "Kathleen Long explores the use of the hermaphrodite in early modern culture wars, both to question traditional theorizations of gender roles and to reaffirm those views. These cultural conflicts were fueled by the discovery of a new world, by the Reformation and the backlash against it, by nascent republicanism directed against dissolute kings, and by the rise of empirical science and its subsequent confrontation with the traditional university system. For the Renaissance imagination, the hermaphrodite came to symbolize these profound and intense changes that swept across Europe, literally embodying these conflicts."--BOOK JACKET.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references (p. [245]-253) and index.
    Contents
    • Sexual dissonance : early modern scientific accounts of hermaphrodism
    • The cultural and medical construction of gender : Caspar Bauchin
    • Jacques Duval on hermaphrodites : culture wars in the medical profession
    • Hermetic hermaphrodites
    • Gender and power in the alchemical works of Clovis Hesteau de Nuysement
    • Lyric hermaphrodites
    • The royal hermaphrodite : Henry III of France
    • Hermaphrodites newly discovered : the cultural monsters of early modern France.
    ISBN
    • 0754656098 ((alk. paper))
    • 9780754656098 ((alk. paper))
    LCCN
    2005032203
    OCLC
    62282098
    Other standard number
    • 99813992743
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